People
Events
Miscellaneous
Laws and Court Cases
Prom Night
100
Civil rights leader who preached equality and nonviolence
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
Nine students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Who are the Little Rock 9?
100
Would not giver up her seat on the bus in Montgomery Alabama
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
Supreme court case that said separate is equal; made segregation legal
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
100
Segregation set forth by the law
What is de jure segregation
200
Preached Black Power
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
200
African Americans and Whites rode bussed through the South to test laws that banned segregated bus seating.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
200
Volunteers in the south registered African American voters and helped urge passage of the Voting Rights Act
What is Freedom Summer?
200
Supreme Court case that says separate is not equal and segregation of schools is unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
200
Segregation by choice or other historical, social, and economic factors factors
What is de facto segregation?
300
Originally believed black should separate from white society
Who is Malcolm X?
300
Organized to urge the passage of a Civil Rights Bill and MLK delivered his famous "I Have a Dream Speech."
What is the March to Washington?
300
Gained popularity in urban areas because they set up clinics, day care centers, helped the homeless, etc.
Who are the Black Panthers?
300
Ended discrimination in housing.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1968?
300
Type of segregation seen in Prom Night in Mississippi.
What is de facto segregation?
400
Assassinated Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is James Earl Ray
400
A sit-in took place at this store in Greensboro, NC
What is Woolworths?
400
Civil rights protest group made up of students
What is SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)?
400
Eliminated literacy tests as a requirement to vote
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965
400
Racial pride, a call for African Americans to define their own goals.
What is Black Power?
500
First African American to integrate the University of Mississippi
Who is James Meredith
500
Event organized by MLK, other civil rights leaders and a dj to have children fill the Birmingham jails.
What is the Children's March?
500
Clashes between African Americans and white authority (police) in urban areas
What are race riots?
500
Prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
Making special efforts to hire or enroll groups that have been discriminated against.
What is affirmative action?
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